Iphone repair - sensitive photos!

meady100 · 10 Sep 2009 at 15:44

Hi all!

I need to take my iPhone for repair as it's completely inoperable. The thing is it has some rather intimate photos on of my better half!!!? What is apple's policy of privacy, is it water tight? I mean I assume this must happen often with computer and phone repairs!

S.

Ross1234 · 10 Sep 2009 at 15:47

To properly evaluate the situation we will need to see the pictures in question.

Phate · 10 Sep 2009 at 15:47

I think they wipe it by default anyway?

Won't it power up if you plug it in to wipe it?

upthetoon · 10 Sep 2009 at 15:48

I'll have a look at it for you...

No idea, but if you want your phone working again what choice do you have but trust them?!

meady100 · 10 Sep 2009 at 15:48

Unfortunately no it won't even power up! And obviously I would post the pictures in question *if* it would power up... :-P

Phate · 10 Sep 2009 at 15:50

Regardless, if they see them or not obviously you don't want them to but people have seen her naked before, and probably will after you, just send it off and claim ignorance if she asks anything

Damn shame you don't have them backed up though eh

upthetoon · 10 Sep 2009 at 15:52

Maybe worth trying recovery mode? Unlikely to work if its not powering up though...

http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/01/29/iphone-101-put-iphone-recovery-mode/

meady100 · 10 Sep 2009 at 16:04

Unfortunately it got wet so it's doing precisely nothing! And thanks guys, your 'assurances' have led to me deciding to smack the crap out of this one and buy a new one off ebay tonight! I'm the jealous type ;-)

MikeHunt79 · 10 Sep 2009 at 16:06

Probably best off not asking apple, otherwire they may pay special attention to your phone!

Don't smash it up, send it to me, I could use it for spares!

jonislost · 10 Sep 2009 at 16:13

meady100 said:
Unfortunately it got wet so it's doing precisely nothing! And thanks guys, your 'assurances' have led to me deciding to smack the crap out of this one and buy a new one off ebay tonight! I'm the jealous type

You're insane! Chances are its a full wipe, it generally is with these types of things. More money than sense if you're willing to just write it off!

peter_hutson · 10 Sep 2009 at 16:21

So you're iphone has compromising pictures of your GF on it and it got wet! Mrhhhhhhhh

You lucky git.

Kainz · 10 Sep 2009 at 16:41

panthro · 11 Sep 2009 at 07:31

This is the exact reason I dont want to take my hard drive in to a specialist for data recovery

markweatherill · 11 Sep 2009 at 07:52

Take it in for repair but wear a white coat and stethoscope. Have a gynaecological instrument of some sort in your top pocket. Sign yourself as 'Dr. Meady100'. Tell them there is confidential patient information on the phone. There!

Rex-Kramer · 11 Sep 2009 at 09:46

If you cant get the pictures of your girlfriend back, give me a shout, ive got some of her here backed up

Cosmic182 · 11 Sep 2009 at 09:51

I have dust under my screen

hyper_piper45 · 11 Sep 2009 at 12:44

Rex-Kramer said:
If you cant get the pictures of your girlfriend back, give me a shout, ive got some of her here backed up

I lol'ed

bigredshark · 11 Sep 2009 at 12:54

markweatherill said:
Take it in for repair but wear a white coat and stethoscope. Have a gynaecological instrument of some sort in your top pocket. Sign yourself as 'Dr. Meady100'. Tell them there is confidential patient information on the phone. There!

In all seriousness you could do something like this, unless you look about 12 or something. Go in (white coat optional) and say your phone is borked, you're a doctor of some sort and it has confidential information on it and ask how they deal with that - they can't mess about with it if it is genuinely that kind of data so they must have some kind of procedure...

geekyEd · 11 Sep 2009 at 13:25

The guys repairing these probably repair loads per day and haven't got time to be trawling through the files that you had stored on it. If they were caught looking at such material at work I'd imagine they would get fired, so don't worry about it and go get it repaired.

meghatronic · 11 Sep 2009 at 13:41

bigredshark said:
In all seriousness you could do something like this, unless you look about 12 or something. Go in (white coat optional) and say your phone is borked, you're a doctor of some sort and it has confidential information on it and ask how they deal with that - they can't mess about with it if it is genuinely that kind of data so they must have some kind of procedure...

LOL.

"Don't press the big red button".

If someone told me not to look, I'd want to know why. If someone didn't mention it, I wouldn't have time to go out of my way.